Sergei Kurashov | |
Office: | Minister of Health of the Soviet Union |
Premier: | Nikita Khrushchev Alexei Kosygin |
Term Start: | 12 January 1959 |
Term End: | 27 August 1965 |
Predecessor1: | Maria Kovrigina |
Successor1: | Boris Petrovsky |
Birth Name: | Sergei Vladimirovich Kurashov |
Birth Place: | Tambov, Russian Empire |
Birth Date: | 1 October 1910 |
Resting Place: | Kremlin Wall Necropolis, Moscow |
Nationality: | Soviet |
Death Place: | Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Native Name Lang: | ru |
Sergei Kurashov (Russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Курашов; - 27 August 1965) was the minister of public health of the USSR from 1959 until his death in 1965. The medical institute in Kazan is named for him. He served as the president of the World Health Organization's World Health Assembly in 1962.[1]
His ashes were buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.